Thread: Are You Good With Money?

Originally Posted by ndw76

I was doing quite well at saving. I even saved enough to pay for a modest wedding. But now I have a wife and I'm poor. My wife is expensive.

Arent they all, wait until she wants to gift you with children!LOL

Ya, just wait until they grow bigger and get even more expensive, especially the female ones.

Nice post Jim, you too David, and everyone else.

It's pretty much basic common sense and self discipline. I've heard Dave Ramsey, he is good, I got his book and checked it out just for good measure, he and his program are just plain old fashion common sense - live within your means, if you want more then work and earn more - I like it when after someone goes through the details of their situation and he says "Ok, so is what you are saying is that you got a bunch of stuff that you couldn't afford." (Duh!) or when he says "You only have one job? Why?", he has gotten rich from giving basic advise, good for him, I'm sure that he has helped many.

Here in America the problem is 'SALE!SALE!SALE!' "Save 50% this week only ..... blah blah blah." SAVE? SAVE 50%? - you will never get ahead by getting 'Good Deals'.
Plus the ever popular and obsessive American past time of "Keep Up With The Jones's" - 'Well so and so has it so I better get one too.', a terrible mental trap that lures in and enslaves people to debt and creditors.
Regretably a society built too much on greed and covetousness and materialism.
I know people here who remember the days before the dreaded evil 'Credit Card' and back then if you couldn't afford something then you just didn't get it, you wanted something then you work and save and when you save enough then you can get it if you still want to. And saving, many learn, can also be addictive - better than wanting more and more.
Like one old fella put it, that here in America "We buy junk that we don't need with money that we don't have to impress a lot of people many of who we don't even like." - well said.

I have been fairly fortunate, I'm a debt-aphobe, the Lord has and continues to bless me enough to have enough, and enough is plenty, I don't have any debt, I don't have much but I don't have any debt either.